Michael Albert, Zmag

Changing society isn't a matter of breaking windows. It is a process of developing consciousness and vehicles of organisation and movement, and of then applying these to win gains that benefit deserving constituencies and create conditions for still further victories leading to permanent institutional change. Cultivating movement coherence, trust and solidarity - not just a small affinity group but far more widely - is a big part of this agenda.

2014-03-30T09:05:53+00:00

Changing society isn’t a matter of breaking windows. It is a process of developing consciousness and vehicles of organisation and movement, and of then applying these to win gains that benefit deserving constituencies and create conditions for still further victories leading to permanent institutional change. Cultivating movement coherence, trust and solidarity – not just a...

Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Where do we go from here?’

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action with education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.

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2015-02-11T15:49:46+00:00

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action with education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should...

Marge Piercy, ‘The Low Road’

What is a social movement? It goes on one day at a time. It starts when you care to act. It starts when you do it again after they say no. It starts when you say 'we' and know what you mean. And each day you mean one more.

2014-03-30T08:08:54+00:00

What is a social movement? It goes on one day at a time. It starts when you care to act. It starts when you do it again after they say no. It starts when you say ‘we’ and know what you mean. And each day you mean one more.

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